Has it been 4 weeks already?

Well, it's now been a month since my arrival in Cairns and there's still so much left to see and do :) Last weekend I went up to Port Douglas with another vet to look around an outdoor market and what a gorgeous seaside drive it was to get there. Heck, the drive alone was worth it; with winding s-curves, steep cliffs just off the side (both hands on the wheel, folks) with waves crashing on the rocky shores below... but keep in mind the Reef settles most swells before they come in so the surf of Northern Queensland is dwarfed compared to OBX waves. Anyway, the market was fun and full of artists, jewelers, etc... typical amrket folks. I even participated in a juggling act by tossing a flaming stick to the guy standing on the shoulders in the pic.. funny guy; a lot like the street performers you run into downtown or on Boston Common (or at least used to :).

And since a few folks have asked about seeing kangaroos... here's a pic of me at the hospital with a juvenile wallaby for a physical exam before releasing it back into the wild. It was an orphan raised by a some folks here who have a total of 3 to release this week. And as luck would have it, I happened by the hospital today on my day off as a new arrival showed up for some hand rearing, so I got a pic of him as well.

Not much else will be happening this week as I'll be on call all weekend so staying close to home; but the weekend after that, I have 4 days off and hope to get some exploring done at the Daintree rainforest; so check in again in a couple weeks for some awsome pics :)